Whoa, Nelly! You might want to rephrase that. Now I know why they call them "scare quotes."
It involves "eating" before you "pay." Imagine that!
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Hmmm. What are we supposed to make of these mysterious quotation marks?
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My only "problem" is that I don't "understand" why you have quotation marks around these "words!"
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When the mystery meat may be your own. . .
It's all coming together now! I always wondered where the strange "propensity" for unnecessary quotation marks "came from." In this case, I believe it limits liability.
The Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks chronicles one of my pet peeves — the misuse of quotation marks. This instance, found at an Arby's, makes me rethink my interest in their "horsey sauce." Ewwwwww.